More brackets

Brackets from a fallen tree in the neglected gardens of Kilmory, Lochgilphead, Argyll.

(This is my first edit with Adobe Lightroom)

Sunday fungi

These impressive beasties were all over some tree stumps at the end of the garden earlier in the week. Identification welcome.

Decomposers in Ness Wood country park

Taken a week ago in woods beside the Burntollet River in Northern Ireland. As always, identification welcome.

More fungi

This post was shared on Tumblr and has since gained over 30,000 notes. That makes it my most popular photo ever published, and it was an afterthought that I posted it in the first place.

Someone on Tumblr has identified the fungus as Honey Fungus (Amillaria spp.). Apparently they are edible, but I’m not going to try.

Patrick Mackie

This is another photo from my second fungal foray, but one which I’d not included in the previous gallery. Going over the photos again, I decided I really liked the way these fungal bodies spiraled and climbed around the mossy trunk of the tree.

Click on the images for more fotos of phungi:

Fungal foray

Another fungal foray

Woodland fungi

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Microbrackets

The underside of small bracket fungi growing on a fallen Scots pine limb. Flash-illuminated.

The weather around here has been foul for days, so it was a delight to be able to get out of the office for a walk at lunchtime today. And, like a good boy, I took the camera with me. This is all that’s fit to share.

Forest fungi

Fungi in Inverliever Forest, taken on 9th November 2014.

White rimmed fungus

Growing on a mossy bank by a burn in Inverliever Forest. Again, identification is welcome.

A small red cap

 

Lurking in the moss in Inverliever Forest. Identification most welcome.

Two glistening caps

Found in Inverliever Forest at the weekend. Identification is welcome.

Update: After lots of comments on Facebook asking why I didn’t photograph the underside of the cap, and the floor being very wet and mossy not being an excuse and so on, friends have suggested that this is Slippery Jack (Suillus luteus). S. luteus is a bolete found in the litter underneath pines, and this is where this specimen was found. So, thanks to the Ford Fungologistas for putting me right.

First fungi of the season

This is the first of this autumn’s crop of fungal photos. Seen when out for a walk at lunchtime and only five minutes from the office.